SalesVu, Inc., the only provider of a cloud-based mobile payment application, announced today it has closed $600 thousand in a recent round of angel investment funding. Designed to significantly improve payment processing for the growing mobile workforce, the SalesVu solution is the first iPhone and iPad application to accept payments and connect to a secure cloud-based infrastructure for centralized pricing management, reporting, and marketing. This infusion of financing will fuel the company’s product development and [...]

Macheen, a global cloud service provider for connected devices, today announced it is live in the United States, with mobile broadband connectivity via the Nationwide Sprint Network.   Available in Europe since February, Macheen’s comprehensive turnkey platform enables connected laptops, tablets and other consumer electronics device makers to not only to reach across continents, but also tap into different mobile network technologies.  For example, in Europe private-label services of device makers, powered by Macheen, use [...]

SmartCamp is an exclusive event aimed at identifying early stage entrepreneurs who are developing business ventures that aligned with the IBM Smarter Planet vision. This mentoring and networking events put entrepreneurs in touch with investment firms, serial entrepreneurs, academics, marketing, communications, and technology experts that can help accelerate the solutions of startup companies to market. I’ll be speaking about Social Business to the budding entrepreneurs tomorrow, just in case you happen to be there. If [...]

We had an opportunity to ask Howard Charney, from the Office of the President at Cisco, a few questions before he speaks at the upcoming Innotech Austin conference.

My next door neighbor is Dave Thomas. (No, not related to the famous Wendy’s founder.) Dave, Karen, and their family have been great neighbors over the years and, while we may go weeks sometimes not seeing much of each other, due to being involved in our separate professional and personal pursuits, we always know they have our back, just as we have theirs. Which leads me to the subject of this month’s FreshTech post, because [...]

We assigned a special guest blogger, Scott Francis, to cover Conformity’s recent launch. Scott is Co-founder and CTO of BP3, an Austin-based business process improvement consultancy.